Friday, September 28, 2012

Por ella soy Eva #52 9/27/12: And the Cat's in the Cradle and the Silver Spoon.


Lalito's father, Mario, has shown up at the home of Helena's parents and he wants to see his son.  Helena goes upstairs to tell Lalo about his dad, and tells Lalo to think about what he wants to do.  Lalo replies matter-of-factly that he'd like to see his father.  In fact, he wants Mario to take him to the fair like other fathers do with their sons.  Helena returns downstairs to tell this, and Mad Dad has a cow and says Mario can damned well visit Lalo right there in front of him.  Helena says she's agreeing to the visit for Lalo's sake.  Mario says that this Pluto guy looks like a respectable type [oh, he is, he is] and he can accompany them to supervise the visit.  Ed glowers.  Helena helplessly shrugs.  Pluto looks smug.

Marcela is sending the kids to their grandparent's house to spend the night.  Jennifer wants to know what's up, but Marcela is playing it coy.  Later, Marcela is seen shopping in a lingerie store.  She has Mimi's list of things to jump start love and she wants something sensual but not vulgar.

Eva is telling Lucia that it's a strange coincidence that Mario appears just as Helena is about to bring Lalo home with her.  Eva's female intuition is telling her that something is wrong.  Helena calls Lucia and wants to know if she is alone.  Eva shushes her up and eavesdrops on the conversation.  Helena complains about Eva's interference when she's been repeatedly told not to meddle in Helena's personal life.  Helena tells of the plan for Mario to take Lalo to the fair and Eva gasps.  When Helena has hung up, Eva coerces Lucia to tell her where- Chapultepec Park.  Lucia says not to worry,  don Pluti is going with them.  Eva heads right out, apparently suffering from amnesia about the first part of the conversation.  Later, Lucia calls Helena to embarrassedly stutter that Eva is on her way to the park.  Girl can't keep a secret.

Lalo and Mario are at the fair talking, while a short distance away Helena and the Putz are watching.  Helena is nervous and Plutarco is calm as a cucumber.  Mario is encouraging a rapport between him and Lalo by finding out that he and Lalo both like soccer and cars.  Lalo cuts to the chase and asks why Mario abandoned him.  Why other kids had fathers and he did not.  Lalo runs away, and Mario catches up with him as Eva spots them.  Mario gives the boy what appears to be a heartfelt answer to his question.  Lalo has every right to be angry.  Mario had been afraid, afraid that his life was not going as he has planned, afraid of the responsibility, afraid of so many things.  He asks Lalo what he does when he's afraid, and Lalo replies that he starts to run.  Well, that's what I did, but it was wrong because I wasn't a child.  I should have stayed and now I am paying for having been a coward.  I've missed out on your growing up and all those things your mother did with you alone.  Lalo agrees to see Mario again and surprises Mario by asking for a hug.  Eva looks on wistfully.

Kevin is anxiously asking his father where he is taking him, under the pretext of playing pool.  Fernando is talking over him, like he does with all his family, and they arrive at the house of a prostitute.  She answers the door, and Ferni tells Kevin that Candy Sweet is a professional and she will show him how to be a total man, a true man.  Candy looks skeptical.

Helena is scolding Mario for disappearing with Lalo and, all wistfulness aside, Eva appears and begins to tear into Mario as well.  Helena is angry.  "What are you doing here?  Didn't I tell you a thousand times not to interfere?  You have nothing to do here."  Eva says she was trying to protect them from this crazy person (energumeno) but Helena sends her away.  Pluto is beside himself trying not to laugh out loud he's so pleased.  Mario wants to talk to Helena about what's happening.  Pluto offers to accompany them but Mario says no.  Pluto doesn't look happy anymore as he realizes his stooge isn't following the script.  [it's so hard to find good help]

Meanwhile, the hooker is telling Fernando that she doesn't have sex with underage persons, that she has principles.  He wants to know what principles she has and he persists.  She gets angry at Fernando and tells Kevin to come back when he's old enough to vote- it'll be on the house.  Fernando tells Kevin not to say a word of this to his mother.  Kevin says, "Do you really think my first time ought to be with a woman you got for me and that I never met?"  He storms off, leaving Fernando impactada. [is that Spanish for clueless?]

JC is telling Mimi that when he saw Lalo with Mario, he understood how much Lalo needs a father.  She says that is no reason to react like a typical violent macho; apparently he's learned nothing in Eva's heels.  JC looks contrite as Mimi tells him that men have to stop being macho to become true men.  JC is tired of makeup and heels and he needs to think.  He's going out.

Mad Dad is criticizing Helena and says that while all this is going on she ought to leave Lalo with them.  Helena says that for tonight she'll stay there with him, but MD says, "No. This is not your house."  Silvia tries to smooth things over but MD pouts and says fine, do what you want, you always have.  Lalo overhears Helena expressing her fears to Silvia.

Marcela has her list of love to woo back the Three Minute Man.  She's in her negligee and has spread flower petals all over the bedroom.  So many dead flowers.  She struggles to find the correct saint to pray to for a night of good lovin', and decides to pray to Mary Magdalene.  She continues to spread flower petals out the front door and, OMG, the wind blows the door shut.  She is without keys or a phone.

JC follows Helena and Mario to a restaurant but isn't close enough to hear them.  Helena is telling Mario he hasn't done any of his fatherly obligations, and Mario is saying Lalo is growing and needs his father.  She says he left her indebted to her father and she never told Lalo that he was a thief.  He says he's now a U.S. citizen and he wants to bring Lalo with him.  Helena loses it and slaps him.  Hard.  He says he has rights and will have custody.  She tells him she's not afraid, that he has no idea of what she's capable of doing to protect her son.  If he wants a legal battle, he's got one.  Pluto comes and pulls Mario from the table while Helena's away.  JC follows them into a garage.  Pluto yells at Mario for not following the plan- Pluto is supposed to be the hero.  Pluto presses more money on Mario, while JC takes pictures with his phone, but Mario doesn't want money- he wants his son.  He lost a baby with a woman he adored and now he's seen Lalo.  "Save your telenovela.  I don't have time to hear it." replies Pluto.  Mario has reneged on the plan, and Pluto swears he's going to regret it.

Helena tries to explain what the legalities of Mario's return means to Lalo, but Lalo throws back at her that she said she wished his father had never returned.

Poor Marcela.  Locked out of the house in her negligee, she tries to borrow a phone from a passing neighbor wearing curlers in her hair.  But the neighbor is full of Marcela's husband's shouting and her family of degenerates.  This is a neighborhood of decent people.  Marcela is protesting that they are decent people, but a police car turns the corner and the cops accuse her of working outside of the "zone of tolerance."  They cart Marcela off to jail as she protests that she's not a prostitute.  JC is telling Mimi that Plutarco is behind the mysterious appearance of Lalo's father when the call comes in from Marcela.  She's been arrested!

Avances:  Eva shows Helena the photo of Pluto offering Mario money... but I'm guessing he'll talk his way around it.

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Permalink posted by Ithabill @ 1:13 AM
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Thanks much Ithabill! What a crazy episode. Yeah, I figure all Pluto has to say is that he was buying Mario off (trying to get him to leave). Mario may feel some remorse and be drawn to his child, but if he thinks he can take the child away from his mother and head back to EEUU just like that, he hasn't learned anything. I'm wondering now if Pluto decides to make Mario "disappear" right after his sudden appearance, which would be another tragic outcome for poor Lalito.

I'm sure tired of Pluto and his smug manipulations of Helena. I never got why Pluto was so drawn to Helena in the first place. If it was because she was a "fresh, honest woman", well Pluto was already married to such a prize. There is no apparent sexual attraction either. It's just weird.
Permalink posted by Blogger Audrey : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 9:11:00 AM EDT
 

Great recap Ithabill!

Interesting twists and turns again in this episode. We may have just a short time with Mario - I'm also wondering if he's going to disappear somehow.

The Pluto/Helena storyline is rather strange. He does seem to be attracted to her (remember all the sniffing?) but there seems to be something else going on, too.

Poor Marcela. It's going to be interesting to see Fern's reaction, after having just taken his son to a prostitute.

Mil in NC
Permalink posted by Anonymous Anonymous : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:20:00 AM EDT
 

Yikes...haven't seen this yet, but sounds like a crazy episode. Since Marcela is my favorite character, I'm bummed her attempt at Total Woman seduction turned out so badly.

Thanks for a great recap Ithabill. You write well.
Permalink posted by Blogger JudyB : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 10:28:00 AM EDT
 

Ithabill, what a great recap. I always look forward to them. Love the title and now that song is stuck in my head, lol. I always love any Harry Chapin song.

Poor Marcela. To go to all that length to seduce her hubby and she gets locked out, lol. I had a feeling this would happen when that door was left open and she was strewing those rose petals all over the walkway, lol. I wish the estupida neighboor had let her use her phone, instead of berating her like that.

Oh, Pluti I think wants Helena cause she is unobtainable. I don't know how many times she has told Pluti she just wants to be friends and nothing more. Pluti trying to get rid of Lalito will not work, but only make Helena mad. Pluti is one dumb bunny.

Eva better watch herself. She keeps getting in Helena's bidness and it is ticking Helena off.

I don't like Mario. There is just something about him. I do give him credit for going off script so maybe he does care about Lalito. And Audrey is right, no way will he be able to take Lalito to the U.S. without a fight.
Permalink posted by Blogger Madelaine : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 12:16:00 PM EDT
 

Thanks, Ithabill! Perfect title.

I couldn't believe that Marcela went outside to scatter the rose petals. Hasn't she ever watched TV before? Everyone knows that if you go outside in your underwear, you end up getting locked out.

I agree with Audrey, Pluto will probably tell Helena that he was trying to pay Mario to go away. Which is absolutely true and really won't sound absolutely terrible... at least it will sound like his intentions were sort of good. (Compared to how bad it will sound when Helena finds out that Pluto's the reason Mario showed up in the first place.)

I also agree with Mil that there seems to be more to Pluto's interest in Helena beyond mere attraction. He's acting as though she's the final item in the ultimate scavenger hunt, rather than the ultimate prize. Maybe I'm just imagining it, but he seems to have a much broader secret agenda.
Permalink posted by Anonymous Julie : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 12:17:00 PM EDT
 

Love your style Ithabill. This was quite an episode.

So the story about Mario's dead wife & child is true. I thought he might have made it up to explain his mysterious return.

Poor Marsela. No one ever listens to her -- not Fer, not the neighbor, not the police. Where is Fernando anyway????

Güera
Permalink posted by Anonymous Güera : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 12:48:00 PM EDT
 

Ithabill - I too think the title is perfect. My favorite line: "Eva heads right out, apparently suffering from amnesia about the first part of the conversation."

It's understandable that Helena is irked with budinski Eva, but it bugs me that she never gets pithed at budinski Pluto.

At least Marcela chose one of the more conservative nighties. She could've needed rose petals to cover her tush too.

Thank goodness the prostitute has standards. Not liking Fernando one bit now.

Permalink posted by Blogger Niecie in MD : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 2:29:00 PM EDT
 

Thank you, Ithabill! Great title and great recap.

Yikes, Fernando. At least Candy Sweet was more decent than he is. I hope Kevin does tell Marcela about it, or maybe Jennifer at least (because she'd tell Marcela). She should know what kind of creep she's married to and maybe rethink the romance strategy and go for a sartenazo instead.

As soon as Marcela went outside, of course I guessed what would happen, having seen TV before. At least she didn't go for vulgar lingerie! Also, her outfit was really more decent than what a lot of women on these shows wear all the time to work and such, so I don't know why anyone thought she was a prostitute. Do prostitutes bother with rose petals and stuff? I should ask Candy Sweet.

Also...she left a lot of candles burning inside! I hope someone comes home soon. Maybe Fern will arrive and find all the romance setup and then...no Marci. Bwahaha. Although he'll probably just turn on a football game and not even notice.

Add me to the list of those wondering why Helena doesn't get annoyed by Pluti meddling in her life.
Permalink posted by Blogger Julia : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 2:43:00 PM EDT
 

Fernando was just awful. So disgusting! I must say the actor playing Fernando is making the most of his roll - outstanding - as I just squirm whenever I watch him. So brilliantly obnoxious!
Permalink posted by Blogger Audrey : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 4:27:00 PM EDT
 

Same here - Helena constantly giving Pluto a pass. Seems pretty sexist on her part!
Permalink posted by Blogger Audrey : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 4:29:00 PM EDT
 

Thank you so much Ithabill for the wonderful recap.

I ditto everyone's sentiments about obnoxious Fernando. I am also glad that Candy had her principles.

Poor Marcela. I felt so bad for her, but I was also laughing through her whole ordeal. :)
Permalink posted by Blogger Vivi in DC : Friday, September 28, 2012 at 4:37:00 PM EDT
 

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